The Rupnik Scandal: the Jesuit must stand trial, says New York canonist

Father Marko Rupnik at a private audience with Pope Francis at the Apostolic Palace on January 3, 2022 (Vatican Media)

(ROME)

Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik should stand trial, and any involvement Pope Francis had in directing the Vatican or the Jesuits on how the case was to be handled should be made known “sooner rather than later”, leading canonist Fr Gerald Murray has said. 

In this second part of the Catholic Herald's two-part interview (for the first part, see here) with the New York priest, we discuss the shocking interview an alleged victim of Fr Rupnik recently gave to Italian media, the Jesuits’ version of the events which led to the Slovenian priest’s excommunication, and Pope Francis’ potential involvement in the Rupnik scandal.